Meanings
nounhylophyte (plural hylophytes)
plural hylophytes
- A plant that grows best in woods or forests.
In the present treatment they have been divided according to biological characteristics into hylophytes or forest plants, poophytes or meadow plants, and aletophytes, ruderal or waste plants.
1900, Roscoe Pound, Frederic E. Clements, The Phytogeography of Nebraska, second edition, page 172
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